Alicorn comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 12:07:20AM 1 point [-]

why did about 50% of readers get a mental flinch and an overpowering urge to correct me when I used “less” instead of “fewer” in the sentence above?

I didn't, and I suspect the percentage of readers who did is much smaller.

Comment author: Alicorn 11 July 2012 05:47:46AM 5 points [-]

I did. I considered going into the post to fix it before going on to the next sentence. It would have looked very weird if I had been skimming more casually.

Comment author: prase 11 July 2012 09:37:40PM 1 point [-]

You are normally correcting the posts by yourself, rather than telling the authors to do so?

Comment author: Alicorn 12 July 2012 01:21:15AM 4 points [-]

For minor grammatical and formatting errors, yes. Never content.

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